Economy is an ambitious and fast-growing charity with a mission to give everyone the confidence to talk about economics.

We provide jargon-free news and entertaining, imaginative, and down-to-earth content on our website www.ecnmy.org. We also work with schools, communities, and economic institutions to create spaces for people to talk about the subject in an engaging and accessible way.

Over the last two years our team has grown from just two people to our current staff of eight, based in our lively and friendly co-working space in East London.

While the last year and a half was about experimenting with our brand and establishing our role in the industry, 2018 is about scaling up what we’ve learnt so far to really make waves in economics communication.

Your job will be to develop and execute a video strategy on our social media channels focused exclusively on creating shareable, engaging, and accessible content on economics.

Your target audience is millennials who'd never say they're interested in economics, but know it affects the things they’re struggling to get to grips with - house prices, paying back student debt, casting a vote.

Your aim is to come up with ways of conveying economics news, concepts and ideas, giving them the tools and confidence to make healthier personal financial choices and to participate more effectively in democracy, taking part in more zoomed out conversation on what ‘the economy’ really is and how it works.

Your content should also engage people in our movement to make economics for everyone, creating a sense of buzz and something that people want to be part of.

You’ll be producing content primarily for YouTube with a goal of building up our subscriber base, but everything you do should be adaptable for Facebook and Instagram and geared towards scaling up our reach and engagement on an exponential scale.

About you

We’re looking for someone driven by working in new and uncharted territory, who’s experimental, adaptive, and driven first and foremost by audience engagement.

You’ll be working with our Editor and Director of Products to develop your ideas but the ideal candidate should be excited about the idea of a self-led opportunity to grow our social media channels through video.

You don’t have to be an economist to take on the role. Our team has a mixture of backgrounds in economics - some have never studied it before, others have worked in financial reporting, others are full on econo-geeks.

The important thing is that you’re excited about the challenge of finding ways of making the subject relatable and, if you haven’t had much background in it, that you ensure content is fact-checked prior to publishing.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate:

Proven interest and experience in building engagement on social media channels (can be your own)